Swing-Killing Shoulder Mistake Most Golfers Don’t Realize They Make

If your golf swing feels off, tight, or like you’re early extending no matter what you try — this one shoulder move could be the silent killer. 🎯

In this video, Mike Granato & Shuan Webb from Athletic Motion Golf are breaking down the #1 swing-killing shoulder move that’s ruining your turn, causing loss of power, and throwing off your hip depth — and they’re giving you the exact fix to finally break free. Using TOUR-PROVEN data and live analysis, you’ll see why most amateur golfers mistakenly move their trail shoulder forward and left… instead of up and back like the pros.

They’ll walk you through how to spot it on your own swing, what to do instead, and how to retrain your body using smarter upper-body mechanics to control the pelvis — and stop early extension at the source.

This simple shoulder pivot change helped hundreds of our students unlock smoother transitions, deeper hip rotation, and better consistency off the tee and fairway. It’ll work for you too.

➡️ Watch now and discover the feel that changes everything — your trail shoulder path will never look the same.

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YouTube Chapters:
00:00 – Intro: The Shoulder Move Sabotaging Your Swing
00:23 – The Common Mistake Golfers Make
00:38 – Why Shoulder Awareness vs Pelvis Control
01:00 – Pro Data: What Tour Players Do Differently
01:24 – Shoulder Line Drill Explained
01:50 – The Tighter Arc = Better Hip Depth
02:22 – Movements That Sabotage Your Pivot
03:00 – Feel vs Real: How to Practice the Right Move
04:00 – Live Swing Breakdown Using Swing Coach
04:42 – Improved Feel, Better Sequence
05:18 – Shoulder Arc Controls Pelvis Arc
06:04 – Fix Early Extension

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We’ve made a number of videos talking about how the trail hip needs to go back as much as the lead hip goes forward in the back swing. That’s going to help a lot of you with early thrusting, also seen as early extension. Now, what we’ve seen since making those videos is a lot of golfers will just kind of pop that hip back, which kind of drives the upper body forward andor forward and left. Okay? We don’t want to do that. Knowing that, we’ve come up with a better way that’s had seen a lot of success with golfers just thinking about moving their upper body correctly to control the pelvis. And I think a lot of us have more awareness with what the shoulders and arms are doing than we do with the pelvis. It moves a lot more than the pelvis. So, we’re going to show you some tour data using Shawn as our demo here of what actually happens with regards to the shoulder. So Sean, if you’ll set up using this as our down the line camera, what we see with the best players in the world is the trail shoulder goes up and back more than the lead shoulder goes down and forward. Okay? A lot of golfers think it’s a one one. It’s not even close. Then you can do this on your own swing. Film yourself from a good camera angle down the line and then just draw a vertical line off the front of your shoulder. Okay, Sean’s going to go back and you’re going to see much more of him behind that line than came out in front of that line. Now, to do that properly, the pelvis has got to allow got to move and allow that to happen. Exactly. It’s if you keep this shoulder on a little bit of a tighter arc instead of swinging it kind of out over the ball, you’re forced to move this hip and trail shoulder in a way that like Mike say gets more mass behind that initial shoulder line and it gets you into this hip a whole lot better than swinging left shoulder out and around and the lead hip out and around which pulls you off the line. It’s it’s a once you do it a few times, it’s a totally different windup feeling and I I use it in my own swing. It’s helped me a ton. So, a couple moves that we see golfers trying to do that ruins this form in their swing is left knee down and forward. You can see how that pulls everything out past that line. We see a lot of hands in, club out, doing the same thing or just a general awareness of trying to make a bigger turn and getting everything moving too far out, not enough back and behind or just locking the trail leg and shove and making this Pac-Man angle that we’ve been talking about for years. All those will get this moving in the wrong direction. It gets the torso mass too tipped out over towards the wall. It’s a very easy concept to understand, right? Trail shoulder’s got to go back and up more than lead shoulder goes down and around. Now, to feel that, film yourself swing. We’ve got our swing coach app set up here from down the line. And we’ve got it set on hip depth at the top of the swing. So, again, you should see some increased hip depth at the top of the swing and shoulder plane. So, we don’t want to just stand up and move everything back. That’s not what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to turn in the proper ratios. So, I’m going to get out of the way. Let Sean chip a few here. And he’s going to really focus on turning behind that. And now, for me, when I do this, sit up to it, Sean. Yeah. Well, I’m sorry. We’ll go back down the line here again. I feel, again, this is feel, not real. I feel like there’s a a fence right in front of me and I’m turning behind this fence with very little of my body touching it com compared to, you know, letting everything drift too far out here in front of me. I can feel that, right? You feel the difference. Yeah. And then the topheavy guy is going to Well, you got to counter that, right? If I lean like that a lot, I have to go the other way to hit it. That’s exactly right. So, let me get out of the way so Okay, swing coach can get you set up. And we’re just going to take a I’ll get back here so you can hear the feedback. We’re just going to make a swing to see where we are. Right. I’m I’m going to kind of go the the old way, the way I used to do it even, which got me early extending. So that way you can see both sides of the coin. So here we go. Okay. Hips at top, forward by two. Hips forward by two at the top. Shoulders were in the window. Okay. Okay. So, we’ve got to make sure we keep now that left shoulder back enough to where the right can go up and back. Yeah. So, so normally, you know, I would be decent with the shoulders, but with the way I would swing my hips around this, Mike would look at me and I’d have too much mass out over that line. So, this time I’m going to try to make a different my mind. I’m thinking about the gears dots on the old suit, right? And I’m curving that dot. You know, to think about the trajectory of the the way the the body moves can be helpful. So, I’m just thinking about making a tighter circle here and letting this circle wind back. And when I do it, I feel a totally different sense in my hips. So, I’m going to do that once and see if I can do it the way I want to. And my swing takes on a little different look. Top back by one, which I like. Shoulder the pivot feels a lot better. Okay. So, you actually got your hip back by one there, which is unusual for me. So, that we we changed it by three. Yeah, that that’s unusual for me. And that’s a good feeling for me. I feel like a tighter pivot and I feel like I can unwind the sequence better from there. Like I can start with my hips with a little more speed. So, and this is this is what we’re seeing in lessons. Now, when we do this, by just controlling how the arc that this shoulder makes, you’re by nature going to control the arc the pelvis makes. And you’re not going to see early extension when you do that. You’re not going to see early thrust when you do that. So, it’s a great way to kind of kill two birds with one stone and really improve the pivot. And you you talked you touched on something. I just want to make one more point. You know, controlling the upper body. A lot of times we’ll control the lower body, especially if you’re taking this shoulder to the left. Those of you that sway, it’s the same idea, right? If this goes down, this kicks over. If I can move this a little more across, this can stay behind a little more. So, don’t discount what your upper body is doing to control help control the movements of the lower body. Film yourself first. Make sure this is not an issue in your swing cuz you don’t need to try to fix something that’s not a problem. But if you’ve tried to control your pelvis going back and it hasn’t been working, give this a try. You know, we all kind of hear things and apply things differently. Same way to accomplish the same goal.